Condoleezza Rice Quotes
This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.
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I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
